So Chase Utley has tied Reggie Jackson for the record with five home runs in one World Series? That's where the similarity ends between those two now linked in history.
You know all about Reggie - and he'll tell you again, if you'll listen. Brash, extremely self-confident, always knew where the camera was, but backed up his boasts, especially when it mattered most.
Utley? He's the anti-Reggie when it comes to attention-seeking. He doesn't talk all that often with the media, and doesn't say much when he does.
"Sometimes, I don't want to talk about him, because I know he doesn't want me to,'' Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said.
But there they stand atop the list - Utley and Jackson, with five apiece - and Utley will have at least one more game to stand alone. Utley's reaction:
"That's pretty cool, pretty surreal,'' he said. "But I'm glad we got the win tonight.''
Typical. Utley drew even with Jackson with two homers in Game 5 - and both were vital in an 8-6 victory that pushes the series back to Yankee Stadium on Wednesday. Leading 3-2, the Yankees need one win in two games.
Talk about setting the tone in a must-win game, Utley hit the first pitch he saw from A.J. Burnett into the right-field seats for a three-run homer in the bottom of the first. The Phillies never trailed after that.
In the seventh, when the Phillies appeared to have an insurmountable lead, Utley connected on another fastball, this one from left-hander Phil Coke.
But that blast, and another from Raul Ibanez three batters later, turned out to be the Phillies' margin of victory in a wild finish on a chilly night at Citizens Bank Park.
That gives Utley (and Jackson) one more home run than a mixed bag of legends such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Barry Bonds and Duke Snider, and names you wouldn't expect to see on this list: Hank Bauer, Gene Tenace, Lenny Dykstra and Willie Aikens.
"Obviously, it's great company,'' Utley said. "At some point - not now - I'll look back on it. But now, our goal is to win two more games.''
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